Here are some of the detailed specs on it:
1964 Chevy Nova 2dr coupe / hardtop. I am the third owner. The car was built in the Hayward, California plant and stayed in the Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area until my family and I moved to East Texas in May of ‘06. I am told the grandfather purchased the car new and passed it to the grandson which is whom I acquired the nova from back in 1996. I have owned the car 12 years. This Nova has never been in a accident and it shows.
Those that know me, know I have been a nova nut since high school. I had plans to start a restoration / fabrication shop and I wanted this car to be my rolling business card. No expense was spared in the building of this nova. Most of the trim was either NOS or hand picked and fitted out of 30+ sets of parts cars I had. I have been parting out and building novas for over 12 years. I was a member and a officer in Golden State Novas and a member of National Nostalgic Nova. I joined Lone Star Novas once I moved to Texas, but the club is not very active.
This nova was stripped to the shell, sanded to bare metal and rebuilt. There is no rust any where in the car. It has been garaged kept ever since I acquired it.
Nova Features:
- Factory Soft Ray tinted glass
- Factory rear speaker accessory
- Rear window defroster (not correct for the year, was taken from 66-67 nova and adapted in, works excellent)
- NOS Tissue Dispenser (not correct for the year, is for the 1965 model year nova)
- NOS front and rear bumper and grille guards, (were removed from the NOS boxes, then rechromed with triple chrome plating)
- Two Speed windshield wipers with working pump, NOS reservoir, etc
- Recondition correct 1964 front Seat Belts with retractors
- NOS sun visor brackets
- Custom made and installed headliner and matching visors
- Front and rear seats rebuilt and custom stitched by JC’s Customs (Manteca, CA)
- Day / Night rear view mirror
- Reproduction Bowtie exterior mirror
- Reproduction carpet, door panels, kick panels, and package tray
- Reproduction sill plates ( the expensive good ones), reproduction front and rear arm rest bases, reproduction rear ash trays, reproduction dome light lens and base, repro glove box, NOS brake pedal and gas pedal
- Reproduction front turn signal lens, rear tail lens, reverse lens, license plate light lens
- All new weather stripping: Steele Rubber Products Front and Rear window gaskets, Steele vent window rubber, Metro door, trunk, U shaped window, ¼ window channel, Every piece has been replaced with new
- New Tinted Front windshield
- Working factory AM Radio
- Grant Wood Grain Steering wheel and install kit
- Super Sport Nova Steering column
- Super Sport Instrument Gauge cluster, with Auto Meter tach custom fitted into Center
Front End:
- Front Disc Brakes (Nova 5 lug spindles machined to fit Chevelle rotors and calipers, rebuilt calipers with new brake pads)
- Manual dual reservoir master cylinder.
- Line lock on front brake lines
- Front Energy Suspension Poly Urethane Bushings
- TRW ball joints, inner and outer tie rod ends
- Ball bearing conversion in the Idler arm
- Rebuilt manual steering box
- New upper spring perches
- New V8 Springs
- KYB front Shocks
- Front Sub frame has been removed, media blasted, and repainted, it still has the original rivets in the strut bar housings
- Quickor front sway bar
Rear end:
- Ford nine inch rear end (Professionally narrowed by Baer Racing), 355 gears, 28 spline Detroit locker (new - less than 200 miles on it), ‘76 V8 Maverick Grabber 28 spline axles and new rear drum brakes
- Custom rear Quickor sway bar
Exhaust and chassis:
- Custom made and installed sub frame connectors (West Coast Muffler)
- Custom made exhaust system with X - pipe, 2.5 aluminized pipe, mandrel bends, 40 series Flowmaster mufflers, made and installed by (West Coast Muffler)
- Hooker Super Comp Ceramic coated headers
Motor features:
- 350 V8, Standard bore and stroke, block is a 1986 4 bolt main, 1 piece rear main seal, polished lifter valley, New GM rods, ARP studs and bolts throughout, Moroso windage tray, Moroso Oil Pan w/ pickup, Hi volume & pressure Oil pump, brass freeze plugs, block was decked and aligned bored, all internals were balanced and blue printed, motor was built by JHP Motorsports
- TRW Forged flat pistons 11:1 compression
- Erson Gear drive and Aluminum timing cover
- World Product Sportsman 2 Cast Iron Heads, 200cc intake runners, Some Port work, Erson Valves, Crane Springs & Retainers, heads were surfaced to raise compression
- Competition Cams Pro Magnum Full Roller Rocker Arms 1.52 ratio
- Competition Cams Stud Girdles
- Crane Solid Cam & Lifters
- Aluminum Chevrolet Valve covers, competition design, raised letter and bowtie
- Edelbrock RPM Air Gap intake
- Holley 750 HP Double Pump Carb
- Holley Blue Fuel Pump, with Holley Fuel Regulator, 3/8 aluminum fuel line, custom made 3/8 sending unit with return line, Summit Fuel Filter, Painless Wiring fuel relay system kit
- Custom modified original gas tank, the filler neck was moved to inside the trunk, then was boiled out, and recoated
- K&N air filter with K&N air filter lid
- MSD Digital 6 ignition box, MSD billet distributor, MSD wires, MSD Blaster SS coil, MSD cap and rotor
- Summit Aluminum Cross Flow radiator
- L79 Nova Water Neck
- Ford 2 speed Taurus electric fan with Painless wiring relay & sending unit kit,
- 100 amp, chrome one wire alternator, NNN low mount alternator kit
- Edelbrock Victor aluminum water pump,
- Racing approved harmonic balancer (forgot the name brand)
- Aluminum crank and water pump pulleys
- solid Moroso motor mounts
- Optima Red top battery
- Summit battery disconnect mounted just below the rear bumper
- All power cables run in stranded high flow welding cable, Ford remote solenoid
- mini high torque starter
Transmission:
- TH350 Automatic transmission w/ shift kit and some mods (Built by Robert Ellis)
- B&M 3500 Stall Converter
- B&M Super Cooler Transmission cooler, all cooling lines run in steel braided hose and -6 AN fittings
- B&M Street Stick shifter w/ B&M Billet T Bar Handle w/ electric button to activate the Line Lock, ( this shifter was the predecessor to the Pro Stick)
Body Features:
- 400 series model Nova
- Gas filler removed and filled in
- All side trim and emblems removed and the holes welded in
- Body and paint work done inside and out by Fuhrer Paint Werks & Attention 2 Detail
(The paint and body has a story, Fuhrer knew how to do quality prep, modification and body work, but they had never painted a nova before. The paint had runs, sags, and slight imperfections. They would not stand behind their work and the nova was taken to a different shop to fix their mistakes. I spent $5500 with Fuhrer and paid another $3000 to Attention to Detail to fix Fuhrer’s paint mistakes. The entire dash, and cove molding area was sanded and repainted. Most everything else was fixed by proper detailing by a detail minded professional. Total in just the paint and body work alone is $8500!)
- Glasstek bolt on fiberglass 2 inch Cowl induction hood with Glasstek hood springs
(The hood has a story as well. The first hood Glasstek shipped out sagged and did not match up with cowl area of the body. Since the car was being built in stages as money would allow, the hood was bought and stored in the original box for 3 months before being fitted to the car. Because of that, Glasstek would not honor the warranty saying the hood was stored improperly causing the sag. I had to buy a second hood, and this time Glasstek did not cut out the lower bracing of the hood. So even though it is a cowl hood, the bracing is still there making it essentially a flat hood underneath and limiting the size air filter that can be used.)
- Rocker areas painted with gravel guard
- Trunk area painted with black gravel guard
- It was painted with PPG brand paint and the color is toner orange
Chrome and Trim work:
- The best pieces of trim were test fitted out of 30+ plus sets
- Every piece of aluminum was removed and deanodized by Metalco (Emeryville, CA)
- Some parts were NOS, others were excellent used.
- Detail Metals (Pittsburg, CA) polished every piece of trim on the car, the rockers, wheel arches, wheel extensions, cove moldings, drip rail moldings, grille, headlight bezels, fender wrap around moldings, turn signal bezels, dash moldings, top of the door and quarter moldings, front and rear window moldings, door panel stainless moldings, tail light housings
- The rear diecast was redone by The Best Chrome (San Martin, CA)
- Front and Rear bumpers were original 30K mile grandma car bumpers, ( I purchased a 1963 Nova Coupe from a GSN member that had 30K original miles on it and parted it out. That nova was in perfect condition.) These bumpers were also rechromed and triple chrome plated by The Best Chrome Shop
- NOS front and rear bumper and grille guards, (were removed from the NOS boxes, then rechromed with triple chrome plating)
- NOS exterior door handles
- polished door and trunk locks
Wheels:
- 15x7 Chevy ralley rims, The rear pair is a dual bolt pattern set made by Wheel Vintiques and have 4.5 back spacing, the front is a factory Chevy pair with 4.25 back spacing
- Tires are BFGoodrich Radial T/A’s, the front are 195 - 60 - 15’s and the rear 225 - 60 - 15’s
- The rims were painted body color, and have never had trim rings installed
- The Disc brake center caps are polished stainless steel
I know their is information I am forgetting and it's hard to get it all down in one post.
The car was appraised in May '08 by Miller's Classic Cars here in Tyler. The nova appraised for $29,500.